Something in the Air

The crew protects a group of researchers at an abandoned mining outpost while they study an ancient chest found buried deep in the Mediterranean. However the chest proves to be like Pandora's box, housing a demon who escapes and then preys upon the landing party.

Quotes (9)

Smith(while entering the outpost): All the comforts of home.
Brody: Yeah, if home happens to be a U.E.O. penitentiary.
Henderson: I think the U.E.O.’s more humane to its prisoners.

Dagwood(about Piccolo): Is he trying to pull the sheep over my eyes?

O’Neill: What I don’t understand tends to make me nervous so I read a lot.
Summers: And that helps?
O’Neill: Not really. The more I read the more questions I have. Every time I go past a library I get an anxiety attack.
Summers: Well, maybe you should stick to the easy ones like "The Little Engine That Could".
O’Neill: Yeah, I remember that one. “I think I can, I think I can…” Gave me nightmares for weeks.

Lucas(about betting): Dagwood, look, it’s the luck of the draw. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don’t.
Dagwood: I understand. Tony said he got lucky Saturday night. I wonder what he bet that girl?

Henderson: When I worked on the solar station with my father, all I wanted was to be a U.E.O. sailor. Now that I’m a U.E.O. sailor, I spend an awful lot of time wishing I was back at that solar station.

Allusions (1)

Summers: Well, maybe you should stick to the easy ones like "The Little Engine That Could"."The Little Engine That Could", also known as "The Pony Engine", is a children’s story which appeared in the USA. Though its origins are uncertain, its first known appearance was in a Sunday school publication, "Wellsprings for Young People" in 1906. The best known version appeared in 1930, attributed to Watty Piper (a pseudonym for the publishing house of Platt & Munk), with illustrations by Lois Lenski.